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TO: NAESB WGQ Members and Interested Industry Participants

FROM: Todd Oncken, Deputy Director

RE: Wholesale Gas Quadrant Request for Comments

DATE: May 13, 2005

An industry comment period begins today, May 13, 2005 and ends on June 13, 2005 for three WGQ recommendations prepared by the Contracts Subcommittee:

Recommendation R04028 and 2005 Annual Plan item No. 10 – Amend WGQ Standard 6.3.1, Base Contract for Natural Gas, to allow alternative cover page.

http://www.naesb.org/pdf2/r04028_rec.doc; http://www.naesb.org/pdf2/r04028_rec_a.doc

Recommendation R03033 – Request to Amend WGQ Base Contract to include an alternative dispute resolution agreement as a special provision.

http://www.naesb.org/pdf2/r03033_rec.doc

Recommendation C03006 – Request for Clarification to Section 14.10 of WGQ NAESB Base Contract for Sale and Purchase of Natural Gas

http://www.naesb.org/pdf2/03006c.doc

All interested parties, regardless of membership status within NAESB are eligible to submit comments for consideration. The WGQ Executive Committee will review these recommendations and consider them for vote as NAESB Wholesale Gas Quadrant (WGQ) standards or interpretations on August 25, 2005, and in that consideration will review all submitted comments.

All comments received by the NAESB office by end of business on June 13th will be posted on the Home Page (http://www.naesb.org/request.asp) and forwarded to the WGQ EC members for their consideration. If you have difficulty downloading the recommendation, please call the NAESB office at (713) 356-0060.

Best Regards,

Todd Oncken

cc: Rae McQuade, President

NAESB Wholesale Gas Quadrant Members as of May 9, 2005

Organization / Segment / Contact /
8760 / s / Jim Buccigross
AEP Energy Services, Inc. / s / Cathy Szasz
Alliance Pipeline LP / pl / Neil Coghlan
Ameren Corporation / l / Scott Glaeser
Apache Corporation / pr / Michele Markey
Arizona Public Service Company / e / Gary Duede
Kelly Daly
Curt Brechtel
Atmos Energy / pl / Steve Easley
Ballard Natural Gas, LLC / s / Susan Thibodeaux
Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. / l / Phil Precht
Barclays Bank PLC / s / Guy Kern-Martin
BG LNG Services, LLC / s / Martha Braddy
Boeing Company, The / e / Tina Burnett
BP Energy / pr / Bill Benham
Lauren Kaestner
Bridgeline Gas Marketing / pl / Georgia Blanchard
Burlington Resources / pr / Paul Keeler
Calpine Energy Services, LP / e / Janet Dixon
Craig Chancellor
Cargill Incorporated / s / Kathy Gerken
Cascade Natural Gas Corporation / l / Mark Sellers-Vaughn
CenterPoint Energy Gas Services, Inc. / s / James G. Beste
CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Company / pl / Larry Thomas
CenterPoint Energy Mississippi River Transmission Corp. / pl / Robert Trost
Chandeleur Pipe Line Company / pl / Janice E. Rogers
Chevron/Texaco / pr / Randy Mills
Cinergy / e / John Procario
Cinergy Marketing and Trading / s / Maribeth Bedevian
Columbia Gas Transmission / pl / Carl Levander
Columbia Gulf Transmission Co. / pl / Carl Levander
Comprehensive Energy Services / e / Jim Templeton
ConocoPhillips Gas and Power / pr / Peter Frost
Consolidated Edison Company of NY / l / Mary Jane McCartney
Jim Stanzione
Constellation Energy Commodities Group, Inc. / s / Robert McKay
Dauphin Island Gathering Partners / pl / Katie Rice
Defense Energy Support Center / e / Veronica Jones
Kevin Ahern
Department of Energy / e / Christopher Freitas
Dominion Exploration and Production, Inc. / pr / David Ogden
Gary Weaver
Sheri Heslington
Dominion Resources / l / Craig Colombo
Dominion Transmission, Inc. / pl / Gary Sypolt
Iris King
Duke Energy Gas Transmission - Texas Eastern / pl / Richard Kruse
Edison Mission Marketing and Trade / e / Christian Hnat
William Roberts
El Paso Eastern Pipelines / pl / Larry Smith
Mark Gracey
El Paso Natural Gas / pl / William Griffith
El Paso Production Company / pr / Bill Hebenstreit
Enbridge Energy Company, Inc. / pl / Terry McGill
EnCana Corporation / pr / Keith Sappenfield
EnCana Marketing (USA) Inc. / s / Keith Sappenfield
Energy East Management Corporation / l / Marjorie Perlman
Energy Velocity / s / Konni Keuter
Entergy Services, Inc. / e / Arlynn Kelleher
Terry Shields
Equitable Gas Company / l / Steve Rafferty
Equitrans, L.P. / pl / Mina Speicher
ExxonMobil Gas Marketing / pr / Richard Smith
Florida Power & Light Company / e / Dona Gussow
Florida Reliability Coordinating Council / e / Joe Stepenovitch
Gas Transmission Northwest Corporation / pl / Jay Story
Great Lakes Gas Transmission / pl / Gene Fava
Group 8760 / s / Jim Buccigross
Gulf South Pipeline / pl / Claire Burum
Randy Young
H S Resources Inc. / pl / Carol Hall
Imperial Irrigation District / e / William Rapp
Iroquois Gas Transmission System / pl / Tom Gwilliam
Kern River Gas Transmission Company / pl / Janie Nielsen
Kerr-McGee Oil and Gas Company / pr / Charles (Chuck) Johnson
KeySpan Energy / l / Dolores Chezar
Laclede Gas Co. / l / Kenneth Neises
Latitude Technologies / s / Leigh Spangler
Lower Colorado River Authority / e / Mickey Bell
Oxadel Consulting, LLC / s / Lyn Maddox
Marathon Oil Company / pr / Robin Perrine
Mewbourne Oil Company / pr / Michael F. Shepard
National Fuel Gas Distribution / l / Michael Novak
National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. / pl / Joseph Kardas
Natural Gas Pipeline Co of America / pl / Paul Love
New Jersey Natural Gas Company / l / Douglas C. Rudd
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation / l / Bruce Garcy
Nicor Gas / l / Nancy Brucher
NiSource Inc. / l / M. Christopher Maturo
NJR Energy Services Company / s / Ginger Richman
Northern Natural Gas / pl / Mary Darveaux
Northern Plains Natural Gas Company, Inc. / pl / Scott Coburn
Northwest Natural Gas Company / l / Randolph Friedman
NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. / pl / Doug Miller
Occidental Energy Marketing Inc. (OEMI) / pr / Carol Wilson
Pacific Gas & Electric / l / John Breen
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line / pl / Bill (William) Grygar
Kim Van Pelt
PECO Energy Co. / l / Reed R. Horting
Amy Hamilton
Pemex Gas Y Petroquimica Basica / s / Juan Enrique Gonzales Azuara
Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. / l / Tom Zack
Platts / s / Bill Murphy
Portland General Electric / pl / Kathy Davies
Portland Natural Gas Transmission System / pl / David Haag
PPL EnergyPlus, LLC / e / Anne Lovett
Promet Energy Partners, LLC / s / Gregory R. White
Public Service Electric & Gas / l / David Wohlfarth
Questar Pipeline Co. / pl / Scott Hansen
Quorum Business Solutions Inc. / s / Douglas Allen
Sabine Pipe Line LLC / pl / Jan Rogers
Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement & Power District / e / Diane McVicker
SCANA Corporation / pl / Jacquelyn Gettle
Sempra Energy - Southern California Gas Co. / l / Lee Stewart
Rodger Schwecke
Sequent Energy Management, L.P. / s / Pat Metteauer
Shell Gas Transmission, LLC / pl / Chuck Cook
SolArc Inc. / s / Tim Curtis
Southern California Edison Company / e / Roman Bakke
Southern Company Services, Inc. / e / Carl Haga
Southern Natural Gas Co. / pl / Renee Hyde
Ronnie L. Martin
Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline / pl / James L. Harder
Dale Sanders
Southwest Gas Corporation / l / Larry Black
SunGard Energy Systems / s / Chuck McClure
Jennifer Chen
Telvent / s / William (Bill) Morrow
Tennessee Valley Authority / e / Valerie Crockett
Texas Gas Transmission, LLC / pl / Jeff Bittel
Tiger Natural Gas / s / Tracy Phillips
TransCanada Pipelines / pl / Doug Miller
Trinity Apex Solutions, Inc. / s / Richard (Dick) Couron
UBS Energy LLC / s / Suzanne Calcagno
Vector Pipeline L.P. / pl / Amy Bruhn
Washington Gas Light Co. / l / Adrian Chapman
Tim Sherwood
Westfield Gas & Electric Light Dept. / l / Joyce Bodak
Williams Gas Pipeline / pl / Dale Davis
Ron Mucci
Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline / pl / Keith Tiggelaar
Wisconsin Public Service Corporation / l / Patrick Fox

Segment Legend:

e = End Users

l = LDCs

p = Pipeline

r = Producer

s = Services

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